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  Adolf Wolfli exhibit at The American Folk Art Museum (kottke.org)
Adolf Wolfli exhibit at The American Folk Art Museum
Henry Darger's young girls with penises opus was good, but the three-floor exhibit of Adolf Wölfli's work absolutely blew me away.
Wölfli was a Swiss artist who wound up in a mental institution around the turn of the last century (child molestation got him there, schizophrenia kept him there), cranking out art like his life depended on it until he died in 1930.
www.kottke.org /03/05/adolf-wolfli-american-folk-art-museum   (306 words)

  
  Adolf Wolfli ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Adolf von Menzel, The Bearpit in the Zoo, 1851
Adolf von Menzel, Pursuit in the Spiral Staircase, 1851
Adolf von Menzel, Maurergesellenbrief (Diploma for journeymen masons), 1838
www.wwar.com /masters/w/wolfli-adolf.html   (282 words)

  
 Airtools Store: The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation - $25.55
Wolfli was technically suреriоr to Darger, though his collages clipped from magazines (often the Illustrated London News) were not so central to his imagination аs the clip-and-trace fantasy battles of little girls thаt obsessed Darger.
Wolfli conceived of himself as a multimedia artist in a way only a schizophrenic could imagine: his drawings wеrе also musical compositions, images and letters imbuеd with sounds, and time reconceived аs a unit of space.
Elka Spoerri's "Adolf Wolfli: Artist/Builder" is a bibiography and presentation of the basic techniques of his work, including the various shapes he used duе to horror vacui.
www.airtools-store.info /good30363931313134393836.html   (811 words)

  
 eric gelber on adolf wolfli at the american folk art museum
Wolfli spent over thirty years of his life in the Waldau Mental Asylum and was accused on three separate occasions of molesting children.
Wolfli couldn't draw the human figure to save his life, and the only way to differentiate between his male and female figures is to look for the dress and high heels.
Wolfli was a weak colorist but this might be due to the fact that he had limited supplies at his disposal.
www.artcritical.com /gelber/EGWolfli.htm   (1100 words)

  
  [wolfli Adolf] Spoerri Elka - new and used books
Like Darger, Wolfli sought to tame his pedophilic madness by organizing it into an incredibly elaborate art exploring what Darger called "the realms of the unreal," where a mind incapable of coping with the real world could construct and rigidly control a world of infinite beauty and sights denied all ordinary mortals.
Wolfli was technically superior to Darger, though his collages clipped from magazines (often the Illustrated London News) were not so central to his imagination as the clip-and-trace fantasy battles of little girls that obsessed Darger.
Wolfli conceived of himself as a multimedia artist in a way only a schizophrenic could imagine: his drawings were also musical compositions, images and letters imbued with sounds, and time reconceived as a unit of space.
www.isbn.pl /A-[wolfli-adolf]-spoerri-elka   (428 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Outsider art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930) (occasionally spelt Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a prolific Swiss artist who is regarded as one of the foremost artists in the Art Brut or Outsider art traditions.
After his death, a huge collection of elaborate drawings were discovered, many in the form of maps and architectural renderings that described a highly personal fantasy exposition, including portraits of his mother as a neo-baroque building.
Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) was confined to a psychiatric hospital for most of his adult life during which time he produced a vast amount of drawings, text and musical composition.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Outsider-art   (2778 words)

  
 Phyllis Kind Gallery - Self-Taught Art - Art Brut
Adolf Wolfli's childhood was one of degradation and indigence.
The youngest of the seven children born to a stonecutter and a laundress, Wolfli, orphaned before his tenth birthday, was made a ward of the community and lived in a succession of wretched foster homes.
Intermingling reality and fiction, Wolfli's autobiography begins as an adventurous geographical world expedition, of which Doufi (Wolfli's childhood name) is the hero, and expands to a grandiose tale of cosmic war, catastrophe, and conquest with Doufi transformed into St. Adolf II.
www.phylliskindgallery.com /self-taught/artbrut/aw   (472 words)

  
 Per Nørgård - Adolf Wölfli
Adolf Wölfli was born in 1864 in Bern, the son of a bricklayer.
The poverty-stricken family was soon taken into care by the authorities, and Adolf was separated from his mother and his brothers and sisters when he was only eight.
Adolf Wölfli became 'king', as it were, in the lunatic asylum, as the institution was officially called at the time - king of his own home-made universe.
www.pernoergaard.dk /eng/ideer/wolfli1.html   (403 words)

  
 Adolf Wölfli: Home
Der französische Surrealist André Breton nannte Adolf Wölflis Oeuvre "eines der drei oder vier wichtigsten Werke des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts".
Die Adolf Wölfli-Stiftung macht seit 1975 Wölflis Werk der Öffentlichkeit in Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen sowie Publikationen zugänglich.
Die Adolf Wölfli-Stiftung, in deren Besitz sich der gesamte Nachlass von Adolf Wölfli befindet, wurde von Elka Spoerri (1924-2002) aufgebaut.
www.adolfwoelfli.ch   (274 words)

  
 Adolf Wölfli . Enpsychlopedia
Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930) (occasionally spelt Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a prolific Swiss artist who is regarded as one of the foremost artists in the Art Brut or outsider art traditions.
After his death the Adolf Wölfli Foundation was formed to preserve his art for future generations, today its collection is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Berne.
In 1978, "Adolf Wölfli: Gelesen Und Vertont," the first recording of Wölfli's work ever to be published, was released by the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern.
enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Adolf_Wolfli   (1354 words)

  
 Raw Vision
Up close, with the awesome achievement of Adolf Wolfli's text- and- drawing- and- poetry-and-music-filled books lying open before one's eyes, their rich tumult of wild imaginings and dazzling graphics more vivid than any reproduction could ever convey, the moment is a staggering one.
Wolfli's deeply personal, bizarrely beautiful art constitutes one of the most important bodies of work produced by a so-called Outsider artist- or any artist of the modern era, for that matter, even though he created it outside the modernist mainstream.
We know that Wolfli was born in the alpine countryside near the Swiss capital of Bern in 1864, became an orphan and farmhand-for-hire while still a child, did a brief stint in the army, and allegedly attempted to molest young girls on three occasions.
www.rawvision.com /back/wolfli/wolfli.html   (1033 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation: Books: Elka Spoerri,Daniel Baumann,Edward M. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wolfli was technically superior to Darger, though his collages clipped from magazines (often the Illustrated London News) were not so central to his imagination as the clip-and-trace fantasy battles of little girls that obsessed Darger.
Wolfli conceived of himself as a multimedia artist in a way only a schizophrenic could imagine: his drawings were also musical compositions, images and letters imbued with sounds, and time reconceived as a unit of space.
THE ART OF ADOLF WOLFLI: St Adolf-Giant-Creation is a presentation of the works of the mad Swiss artist, whose institutionalization in a Bern asylum in 1895 led to a prolific career of thousands of drawings and literary endeavours.
www.amazon.com /Art-Adolf-Wolfli-St-Adolf-Giant-Creation/dp/0691114986   (1357 words)

  
 Wolfli
Wolfli was born in the Bernese district of grindingly poor parents and at eight years old was working as a goatherd.
Forbidden to court the girl he loved by her scornful father, Wolfli temporarily abandoned life as an itinerant farm laborer in 1883 to join the infantry aged 19.
Wolfli sold some of his work for paper and pencils but separated this work from the work he needed to do.
homepage.ntlworld.com /kate.broom/ap/lecturewolfli/03wolfli.htm   (511 words)

  
 Blackwell Online - The Art of Adolf Wolfli
The Art of Adolf Wolfli offers a fresh vantage point on the artist's remarkably intricate drawings and astonishing collages, as well as his newly translated writings, which are justly celebrated for their dizzying blend of mythology and humor.
From the Cradle to the Grave (excerpts) by Adolf Wolfli
Wolfli's creations treat the eye to a roller-coaster ride through a terrain bounded by Piranesi, biblical myth, illuminated manuscripts, tantric mandalas and Swiss cuckoo clocks--in other words, a dizzying multi-cultural universe.
bookshop.blackwell.co.uk /jsp/welcome.jsp?action=search&type=isbn&term=0691114986&source=3246541172   (1202 words)

  
 The Anthony Petullo Collection of SELF-TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART - Adolf  Wölfli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Adolf Wölfli was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1872, the youngest of seven brothers.
This is but a brief overview of the complexities involved with the art of Adolf Wölfli.
In terms of its artistic quality it is also one of the most highly organized and powerful, providing a clear and overwhelmingly impressive view of the workings of the mind in extremis.” (MacGregor, p.271).
www.petulloartcollection.com /artistprofile.asp?refArtistID=55   (964 words)

  
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Adolf Wölfli was born on February 29, 1864 in Bern, Switzerland.
It is not yet widely acknowledged that Adolf Wölfli is one of the greatest artists of all time but this is changing.
It has been said that insofar as it is possible to break down his work into a "table of elements" his stuff resembles the many manifestations of Piet ("I influence the past.") Mondrian or of nature itself.
www.supermarky.org /aaSkt.AdolfII.html   (591 words)

  
 ROMANO FINE ART - ADOLF WOLFLI.COM
Adolf Wolfli is considered to be one of the leading figures of Art Brut.
In 1895 Wolfli was confined for life to the Waldau Clinic in Bern.
Wolfli also made what he called "Bread Art", art that is generally considered what he would make to sell and sustain himself.
www.adolfwolfli.com   (114 words)

  
 Adolf Woelfli's musical annotations
The CD from Graeme Revell is called The Musique Brut Collection and containes "Necropolis, amphibians and reptiles, the music from Adolf Wölfli", Combined with "the insect musicians", all made or based upon sounds only from insects.
Adolf Wölfli is much more known for his drawings.
It might not have been easy to encifer the notes which were written between the drawings of Adolf Wölfli.
psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com /Adolf_Woelfli.html   (1262 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Adolf Wolfli: Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry): Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The authors approach the phenomenon Wolfli from a variety of perspectives that delineate and clarify the structure of the artist's work and assess its connections to modern art.
Although not the definitive volume on Adolf Wolfli, this is the most comprehensive and satisfying compilation of his work to date, including 186 illustrations and a collection of essays.
Wolfli, who is considered to be an artistic genius, is examined in the context of art history and as a psychological phenomenon.
www.amazon.com /Adolf-Wolfli-Draftsman-Composer-Psychiatry/dp/0801434033   (1257 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Adolf Wolfli: Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The authors approach the phenomenon Wolfli from a variety of perspectives that delineate and clarify the structure of the artist's work and assess its connections to modern art.
Although not the definitive volume on Adolf Wolfli, this is the most comprehensive and satisfying compilation of his work to date, including 186 illustrations and a collection of essays.
Wolfli, who is considered to be an artistic genius, is examined in the context of art history and as a psychological phenomenon.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801434033/ref=nosim/bookssites05-20   (773 words)

  
 Adolf Wölfli: home
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Adolf Wölfli, a former farmhand and laborer, produced a monumental, 25,000-page illustrated narrative in Waldau, a mental asylum near Bern, Switzerland.
Since 1975, our aim is to make Adolf Wölfli's work known through one-man and group exhibitions as well as publications.
Wölfli created a body of work that was part of its age in terms of content, yet clearly alien to that age's conventions.
www.adolfwoelfli.ch /index.php?c=e&level=17&sublevel=0   (446 words)

  
 U B U W E B :: Adolf Wölfli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On a verbal level, it is marked by transformations of thought and expression as radical and often as revelatory as those of the greatest modern experimenters, or those of traditional speakers of numinous tongues.
"Of the Swiss-born Adolf Wölfli, who has emerged as the best known of the early outsider artists, Elka Spoerri wrote: ‘Adolf Wölfli became famous as a result of his drawings.
With the exception of a few extracts his extensive narrative work has remained unknown.
www.ubu.com /ethno/visuals/wolfli.html   (296 words)

  
 wolfli for sk2
Adlof Wolfli is considered to be one of the leading figures of Art Brut.
Collected indepth by Jean Dubuffet, this artists' work was the subject of a major exhibition and catalogue at the American Museum of Folk Art in 2003.
In 1895 Wolfli was confined for life to the Waldau Clinic in Bern.
www.adolfwolfli.com /sk2   (114 words)

  
 Adolf Wölfli
Adolf II., wie er sich ab 1916 nennt, nachdem er längst die Vanderbilts mit Gottvater vertauscht hatte, sondern Städte über die Erde und Gestirne.
Adolf Wölfli spricht von sich, seiner Kunst, seinem Leben und was alles zu berücksichtigen ist: Sie können sich gar nicht vorstellen, wie man dabei seinen Kopf anstrengen muss, um nichts zu vergessen.
«Adolf Wölfli schuf sein gesamtes Werk ausschliesslich während seines 30jährigen Aufenthaltes in der Irrenanstalt Waldau bei Bern.
www.g26.ch /art_woelfli.html   (6274 words)

  
 VOA News - Self-Taught Artists Around the World Create Powerful and Unusual Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mister Wolfli was one of the early outsider artists who received popular recognition.
Adolf Wolfli was a poor farm worker who was placed in a mental hospital in eighteen ninety-five.
For example, around nineteen twelve he finished a nine-book series called “From the Cradle to the Grave.” In this work Mister Wolfli turned his sad childhood into a magical travel story.
www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2007-03-20-voa2.cfm?renderforprint=1   (1438 words)

  
 MAM - Collection -Folk, Self-Taught, Outsider Art - Adolf Wölfli, Breslau
The important outsider artist Adolf Wölfli spent his entire life in and around Bern, Switzerland.
After a troubled youth, in 1895 he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and spent the following decades in the city’s Waldau Psychiatric Clinic.
Like most of his drawings, this example illustrates an imaginary autobiography in which the artist adopted the persona of a divine child named Saint Adolf II.
www.mam.org /collections/folk_detail_wolfli.htm   (123 words)

  
    ---------   KRAUS 99, NR 1, 1999 - Adolf ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nästan sjuttio år efter sin död har Adolf Wölfli uppnått status som husgud för den självlärda konsten.
Han har dött från ett liv och lever på nytt som den oövervinnelige hjälten St Adolf II.
Adolf Wölflis mycket individuella konstnärskap tillhör i högsta grad det tjugonde århundradet.
www.kraus99.com /nr1/wolfb.htm   (676 words)

  
 Art in America: Art out of mind. - Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal, by John M. MacGregor; The Art of Adolf ...
The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation, by Elka Spoerri and Daniel Baumann, New York, American Folk Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press, New Jersey, and Marquand Books, Seattle, 2003; 112 pages, $29.95.
Gerard Wertkin, director of the Folk Art Museum, states in the foreword to The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation that comparisons between Darger and the psychotic Wolfli (1864-1930) are inevitable.
Emotionally deprived in early life like Darger, Wolfli was an orphan and child hireling, eventually institutionalized at age 31 after attempting to molest a three-year-old girl.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_6_91/ai_102793118   (1371 words)

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